alt Hacker News> Finding a specific file by name across the system
> Linux: find / -name "config.txt"
This is not how you find a file across the entire system, you use plocate for that. find would take ages to do what plocate does instantly
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gib444 • today at 6:59 AM
No. "Slower" is not the same as "different functionality".
In fact, "find" is guaranteed to be more correct. And more widely available.
Yes and no, with `find` I know I'm getting "live" results from the filesystem, whereas plocate (and s/locate) merely searches through a database updated god knows when, assuming it's even installed and the bulk of the files indexed.